Injury Report: Feb. 21: Michael Del Zotto to have wrist surgery (Feb. 26); out 3-to-4 months

[GKJ]

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[Embiid]

Awesome...

 

[Curufinwe]

Shame it was MDZ and not Manning.

 

[bb12]

Really puts a damper on the trade deadline. Can't really afford to move Shultz, streit or Medvedev. Unless hextall is ready to give Morin, Hagg or Alt a go. This is a huge blow for the shape of the team deadline day and next year.

Just don't see much desire for any of them at the draft. All really are just rentals or bridges for teams.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

I think it gives Hextall more of a reason to be a seller at the deadline. It's easier to explain to guys like Giroux & Voracek who signed big deals recently that the playoffs just isn't in the cards without your top defensemen this year if it wasn't already.

Can't wait for Adam Comrie to man the top PP unit with the Phantoms tonight.

 

[Cyborg LeClair]

Dang, i was just starting to like MDZ

 

[CodyTheHuman]

Really puts a damper on the trade deadline. Can't really afford to move Shultz, streit or Medvedev. Unless hextall is ready to give Morin, Hagg or Alt a go. This is a huge blow for the shape of the team deadline day and next year.

Just don't see much desire for any of them at the draft. All really are just rentals or bridges for teams.

We still have MacDonald. Without MDZ there are still seven d-men on the roster since MacD got called up.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

We had Manning, Alt, & Lauridsen in the lineup at one point last year due to injuries & trades. It was against SJ, Manning played over 20 minutes that game & absolutely got torched.

 

[bennysflyers16]

Really puts a damper on the trade deadline. Can't really afford to move Shultz, streit or Medvedev. Unless hextall is ready to give Morin, Hagg or Alt a go. This is a huge blow for the shape of the team deadline day and next year.

Just don't see much desire for any of them at the draft. All really are just rentals or bridges for teams.

Don't think this has may bearing on trading Schultz or Streit. If they can find a suitor, those 2 would be gone in an instant.

Welcome back A Mac, let's see if we can make use of him. We're he and Ghost partners in ahl ?

 

[CodyTheHuman]

Don't think this has may bearing on trading Schultz or Streit. If they can find a suitor, those 2 would be gone in an instant.

Welcome back A Mac, let's see if we can make use of him. We're he and Ghost partners in ahl ?

Yes

MacDonald - Ghost
Schultz - Streit
Medvedev - Gudas
Manning

?

It could be worse, I guess.

 

[bb12]

We still have MacDonald. Without MDZ there are still seven d-men on the roster since MacD got called up.

Ya, but say streit is traded. Do you really want d of amac, manning, ghost, Shultz, Gudas and medvedev if we are a bubble team.

I guess reading that back. There is nothing positive. At all.

 

[flyersjim73]

Ya, but say streit is traded. Do you really want d of amac, manning, ghost, Shultz, Gudas and medvedev if we are a bubble team.

I guess reading that back. There is nothing positive. At all.

Good news: We're no longer a bubble team.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Yeah they were falling out of it to begin with but now have a top four defender that they were using as their #1 out for a while on top of one of their top 6 center's out. The Flyers don't have the depth to combat that right now.

I think Hextall's smart enough of a guy to know when the plug needs to be pulled. The pressure he has to answer to when going about such an action (fans, owners, players, etc.) shouldn't really be much of factor to continue course at this point.

 

[Curufinwe]

Yes

MacDonald - Ghost
Schultz - Streit
Medvedev - Gudas
Manning

?

It could be worse, I guess.

Not having Mac on the team at all, then immediately throwing him on the top pairing does seem like something this team would do.

Get well soon MDZ. Don't strain your wrist on Twitter.

 

[PALE PWNR]

Missed the game. What happened to him?

 

[RoDu]

Good news: We're no longer a bubble team.

since losing Coutts yeah, that was a back breaker

 

[CodyTheHuman]

Not having Mac on the team at all, then immediately throwing him on the top pairing does seem like something this team would do.

Get well soon MDZ. Don't strain your wrist on Twitter.

I know, but there really is no one better on the team. None of the other defenders are #1 quality either. It doesn't matter who gets put there

 

[Larry44]

Really puts a damper on the trade deadline. Can't really afford to move Schultz, streit or Medvedev. Unless hextall is ready to give Morin, Hagg or Alt a go. This is a huge blow for the shape of the team deadline day and next year.

Just don't see much desire for any of them at the draft. All really are just rentals or bridges for teams.

Heck, I'd move all three of them in one deal tomorrow if someone would take them.

 

[hatcher]

Doesn't change a thing heading towards the decline. Stat with streit and work anything else out that don't belong.

 

[Tripod]

Too bad about MDZ. Now AMac will come up, be playing above where he should be, and will get exposed.

Hextall knows we are sellers and will do what he can to keep adding picks. I wonder if Meds will be the one benched.

 

[Delete99991]

Streit is declining fast. They need to move him before he becomes nothing more than a cap hit.

With Ghost's emergence he is certainly expendable, even if he does get back to last year's form.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Streit's contract will probably prevent any trade for now.

 

[Hiesenberg]

Streit looks real bad. Sucks, I was hoping we could move him, maybe with an expiring contract at the TDL next year. But no way he goes this year.

 

[Curufinwe]

Streit isn't playing badly at all. He's not getting the PP time he needs to score lots of points, but ever since he returned from injury he's played 20 minutes a game and improved his possession stats despite getting fairly hard minutes alongside Schultz.

 

[daynus]

I watched the whole game and missed the injury. I was a bit distracted watching the last 3 minutes of bill maher last nite on my dvr during commercials.